Cuban American comedian Alvarez Guedes dies at 86

Today we learn the sad news that Cuban American comedian Alvarez Guedes has passed away at his home in Kendall at the age of 86. Many of us grew up listening to Guedes’ hilarious and sometimes raunchy jokes as our parents and grandparents played his comedy LPs and 8-Tracks in our homes, get-togethers, and parties. Besides being an incredibly talented and funny comedian, Guedes understood the Cuban mind and knew how to make us roar with laughter. Above that, he also understood our pain of loss and exile and helped us cope with it by making us laugh when most of us wanted to cry.

The world today is a sadder place without Alvarez Guedes and the Cuban exile community has lost yet another icon. Thankfully, his jokes remain recorded on media, our minds, and in our hearts.

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George, evil people tend to die hard. Very. Probably because they know where they’re going afterwards. Remember how hard it was to kill Rasputin? And people were trying hard to kill him, not just leaving it to biology. Well, I supopose Cubans deserve it. They put Cuba and everything in it in the monster’s paws. Yes, he lied and cheated and made pacts with the devil, but Cubans are still responsible–both for him and for the shit that came before which made his rise possible.